Yaya Toure: Barcelona said I was crazy to leave and join Manchester City

Having been pursued by Manchester City for 18 months, Yaya Toure - the club's towering new midfielder - eventually decided to say yes at the end of last season. The reaction in the Barcelona dressing room was perhaps understandable.

'When you say: "I want to leave Barcelona", people think you're a crazy person and that's how it was,' said Toure.

'Because they are a big team, a great team, and nobody wants to leave them because of that. So the reaction was that people couldn't really believe it.